Dolores O'Riordan Quotes

I am a girl, not a piece of meat.

You can get a man's attention if you got a pair of boobs and a butt. I hate to simplify them down so much, but I think it's true.

Why do women always get pointed at for their bodies?

I don't see why women have to get naked to sell an album. It's crazy.

I think objectifying women is not wrong if only her beauty is captured in an aesthetic manner.

I told my girls, 'Look at Rihanna: She's one of the biggest pop stars in the world. She's really famous, really powerful, really rich. Yet in every single video she can only wear panties. Poor Rhianna! We'll know when she is properly powerful and successful when we see her in a lovely cardigan.'

The whole sex symbol or babe thing doesn't bother me.

They say women and music should never be dated.

I'm sorry, but chick fights are sexy. If you don't think so, you're either an uptight woman or a lying man.

I think women in pop have been declawed and defanged, and they're just meant to look pretty and sing pretty.

Guys who go on and on about loving women usually don't.

We must be very careful when we say that somebody giving you compliments about your looks should be offensive. I think women really should look at why they're being offended by that.

I'm not a type of feminist who is afraid to be sexy.

For me, it's very offensive when I notice that it's all about my appearance, how I look, that a man doesn't care who I am.

I enjoyed showing a bit more leg in the last few stories. It was good fun, but it can be quite sexist. But it doesn't worry me personally all that much.

There's nothing wrong with looking at a woman's kneecaps.

Being the ideal of a strong woman means utilizing all the things that God gives you. People are always saying to me, 'You're a strong female, so why are you wearing a bikini on the cover of that magazine?' Being a strong woman is misconstrued to be something evil and ugly.

To be honest, I really don't like being the sex object.

The men resent a woman getting any honour in what they consider is essentially their field. Men painters mostly despise women painters. So I have decided to stop squirming, to throw any honour in with Canada and women.

Men are very tough, very critical of me. I think they expect you to basically just be a picture. They don't want to hear you speak.

I want men to stop calling me a queen and treating me like an imbecile.

It's a misogynistic world. It's because of what we ask of actresses. We ask them to be sensitive, fragile, desirable. And men? We ask them to be strong and virile.

I don't agree with beauty contests. I did it one time. It wasn't embarrassing being Wonder Woman; it was embarrassing walking around on stage in a bikini. It was ridiculous, stupid, and humiliating.

We know in our society, women are valued for their sexual desirability and not necessarily for what they have to say.

I like women. I like them so much, I think every man should own two.